One of the great things about DXing and SWLing is the variety of music
one can hear. One of my favorite stations to listen to on shortwave for
"exotic music" was Radio Tahiti, Papeete, French Polynesia, when they
were still on shortwave. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe
something happened to the transmitter, and they never got back on SW.
They were on MW through December of 2016 (738 kHz); now they are on FM
only. (Maybe us hobbyists should start a funding website to put them
back on shortwave!)
Many a Saturday night I would turn on the DX-160 (my first SW rig) and
let it warm up for a while, before tuning in 15170 to see how band
conditions were. If the band was good, I'd get ready to record through
the air. Once I started recording, I'd often leave the room and shut the
door, because having three brothers around meant the possibilities were
high for having "extraneous interference" on my recordings.
Saturday evenings were a good time to tune in, because of a music
program that aired with a good selection of island music. The program
had an announcer who spoke in the island vernacular (Tahitian?), and
when that program ended they switched to French.
Here is a 30-min recording of Radio Tahiti on 15170 kHz from a while
ago, most likely around one of the solar maxima of either 1980 or 1991.
I'm leaning toward the 1980 cycle. My apologies for not being able to be
more specific than that. I kept terrible records of my recordings. This
would be recorded either with the DX-160 or a DX-302. Apologies too for
the jump in volume at around the 2:37 mark.
So close your eyes, imagine you are lying in a hammock on a beach
somewhere in the South Pacific, with a warm breeze off the ocean and
your favorite cooled beverage nearby, listening to some of the best
island music anywhere.
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